SAY IT AIN'T SO

This is a story about Joe Jackson.

No, not the shoeless one. The chinless, Gumpish New Waver.

During his transition from Elvis Costello-manque Joe to easy-listening Joe, he released a song called Right and Wrong, which contained this unexpected lyric:

“So what you think,
You like the Yankees or the Mets this year?”

This seemed to be less voice-of-Joe and more man-on-the-street, kind of like Mark Knopfler's loathsome Money for Nothing.

It sure was a sop to 1986, and guaranteed some extra airplay on contemporary New York radio.

Savvy bastard...